Sublime

To admire a misanthrope.

“Wokeness wants to make comedy illegal, which is not cool,” he contended. “Trying to shut down David Chappelle, come on, man, that’s crazy. Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate and no forgiveness? At its heart wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel

freedom of thought and correctness of thought,

So who really has had more contact with black people—snooty white progs in Seattle, or those perpetually demonized Southern rednecks? Who truly is prejudging here?

of happiness,

Jim Goad is the Godfather of the New Right.

By linking any critique I might make on my blog to larger trends, I would make my critique more substantive, less like a personal hatchet job and more like journalism (or even, gasp, scholarship). And it follows that this substantive critique would hopefully be protected by something like academic freedom (if academic freedom actually protected the

body because neither security nor sanctity existed in the first place.

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that we have grown wildly estranged from genuine wisdom or the humility with which erudition tempers facile notions of invincibility.